In the wake of the celebrations surrounding the rescue of three young women held in captivity for ten years in Ohio, a more serious issue has arisen - how did Cleveland Police miss so many clues?

This was reiterated today when a 2004 police sketch was released that was circulated after Gina DeJesus went missing - and it looks remarkably like a younger Ariel Castro.

Castro also knew Gina and the DeJesus family as the-then 14-year-old was best friends with his daughter Arlene.

Footage has also appeared of Castro being questioned by police in a traffic stop for his motorbike in June 2008.

Questions have emerged then, about why he wasn't thoroughly investigated, especially since he lived in such close proximity to where Gina disappeared.

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A 2005 police sketch that was circulated after Gina DeJesus went missing was released today - and it looks remarkably like a younger Ariel Castro, prompting questions as to why he wasn't investigated sooner

Best of friends: Arlene Castro (right) was the
last person to see Gina DeJesus (left) in 2004. Arlene's father Ariel
has been charged in her abduction

The release of the police sketch comes after several residents on Seymour Avenue claimed they called police to number 2207 several times over the years, reporting everything from seeing a woman at the window, to witnessing three young girls crawl around the backyard of the house with dog leashes around their neck.

Gina DeJesus was best friends with Castro's daughter Arlene and should have been investigated by police

All of the neighbors claim that police either never responded to their call or didn't bother to enter the house when they did show up.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight all disappeared about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s.

They were rescued Monday after Berry kicked out the bottom portion of a locked screen door and used a neighbor's telephone to call 911.

Cleveland Detective Jeff Follmer told CNN on Wednesday: 'We don’t know that [police] were called to this house. So far, nothing has been there to back it up.

'Everybody is going to come out of the woodwork right now and say they called police, but until we find some facts to say they were in that house or by that house for a call, it’s not true. We take missing children very seriously.'

Earlier in the week, dash cam footage emerged of an Ohio police officer pulling up behind Castro in a traffic stop at a gas station in June 2008.

The policeman tells Castro, 'You're subjecting yourself to being arrested, is that what you want?' Castro replies: 'No sir, I don't want that.'

The video ends with Simone ordering Castro to 'Stand by your bike and take out your﻿ insurance documents.'

On its Twitter page on Wednesday, the
Cleveland Police Department wrote that an 'extensive search of call
intake system did NOT show any calls to Seymour [Street] house for women
held or women banging on windows'.

Israel Lugo, who lives two houses down from Castro, said
he heard pounding on some of the doors of the house, which had
plastic bags on the windows, in November 2011.

In that instance police responded, but officers only knocked on the
front door and left when no one answered.

'They walked to the side of the house
and then left,' he told USAToday.

Another
neighbor, Nina Samoylicz, who lives three doors down, also reported
seeing a naked woman in his backyard two years ago, but police didn't
take her seriously when she reported the incident.

'We thought it was funny at first, and then we thought that was weird so we called the cops.' she told CNN. 'They thought we was playing, joking, they didn't believe us.'

Soon after Castro covered his garden in tarps so no-one could see in.

Cleveland police officials said on Tuesday that the department has no records of a call for service to that home.

Neighbors of accused kidnapper Ariel Castro have revealed that they reported seeing naked young girls crawling on all fours with dog leashes round their necks - but police didn't even respond

The back of the home of Ariel Castro on Seymour Ave: One neighbor says she once saw a little girl looking out of the house's attic window

Brothers: From left, Ariel, Onil and Pedro have all been arrested in connection with the abduction of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight almost ten years ago

A third call came from some women who lived in a nearby apartment building.

The women, who haven't been
identified, told Lugo they called police because they saw three young
girls crawling on all fours naked with dog leashes around their necks.
Three men were controlling them in the backyard.

The women told Lugo they waited two hours but police didn't respond to their calls.

Lugo said he had seen Ariel Casto last Sunday at a nearby park with the girl who officials now think is Berry's daughter.

When Lugo asked Castro whose daughter she was, Castro said that she was his girlfriend's daughter.

Elsie Cintron, Nina Samoylicz's mom also said she once saw a little girl looking out of the house's attic window.

Officers also visited the home in 2004 as part of a child services' investigation but left when no one answered.

Police had been alerted to Ariel Castro after
he inadvertently left a boy at a bus depot while working as a school bus
driver. No criminal charges were brought and no follow-up inquiries
made.

Reunited: Amanda Berry (center) at the Cleveland
Hospital alongside her emotional sister (left) and the daughter that
she gave birth to during the 10 years she was held against her will

Found: Amanda Berry (left) and Gina DeJesus (right) were found alive in Cleveland on Monday afternoon

The three woman escaped the home on Monday night, where it is believed they had been chained for ten years.

Fox News 8reported a law enforcement source said that Knight told police that there was another woman in the home when she got there, but one day she woke up and the woman was gone.

In the basement a female's name is written on the wall and the words 'Rest In Peace' - it is not known it they are related to the case.

Questions
will now be asked as to how police and federal investigators failed to
find the girls who remained undetected at the home just three miles from
the block where they all went missing.

Ariel Castro has lived in the house since
1992. His two brothers - Pedro, 54, and O'Neal, 50, - do not live at the
home but were arrested in connection with the three abductions.

Ariel's son said it is conceivable his father may have targeted his youngest kidnapping victim because she was a close friend of his daughter.

Shock: Anthony Castro has said he is horrified at news his father, Ariel Castro, allegedly kidnapped three girls and held them captive at his home for a decade. Anthony's uncles have also been arrested

Anthony Castro, 31, exclusively told MailOnline that Gina DeJesus could have been abducted from a busy Cleveland street almost ten years ago because she knew him as her friend’s father.

Antony said it was ‘conceivable’ that Gina got into Ariel Castro’s car instead of walking home because in April 2004 because she recognized him as the father of her best friend.

‘That’s one of the thoughts that went through my head because Gina disappeared in broad daylight on a very busy street. It’s probably the busiest street on the west side of Cleveland,' said Anthony Castro.

'It make you think how could she possibly disappeared without any trace. If she was abducted forcefully somebody would have seen it.’

Castro also revealed that his father padlocked the doors leading to his basement, his attic and his garage and never allowed his family inside.

'House of horrors': Anthony Castro and his father stand in front of the door to the basement in 2001

'If it's true that he took her captive and forced her into having sex with him and having his child and keeping her hidden and keeping them from sunlight, he really took those girls' lives,' he said.

Chilling photographs from 2001 show a grinning Castro, standing in front of a locked door - behind which unimaginable horrors may have been unfolding.

By that point, one of his alleged victims, Michele Knight, had already been missing for a year.

'He doesn't deserve to have his own life anymore. He deserves to be behind bars for the rest of her life. I'm just thankful they're alive,' said Anthony.

'The house was always locked,' remembered Anthony, who appeared visibly tired but reacted with poise throughout the interview. 'There were places we could never go. There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage.'

Among his infrequent contact with his father, who separated from his mother in the 1990s, one recent conversation particularly stands out in Anthony's mind.

Mother: Lillian Rodriguez (pictured center), the mother of the Castro brothers, returns to her home in Cleveland, Ohio after being questioned by police on Tuesday

This map shows the block, Lorain Avenue, in Cleveland where the three girls went missing, years apart. They were found Monday on Seymour Avenue, approximately three miles from where they were abducted

Cleveland
Mayor Frank Jackson told a news conference on Tuesday that police also
responded to the west side home in 2000 following a disturbance in the
street.

Authorities
said that public records show no complaints or building violations at
the Seymour Avenue home. There is also no record of any emergency
service or fire department calls.

On
Tuesday, Cleveland Police said: 'Every single lead was followed up on
no matter how small. We dug up yards, canvassed neighborhoods. [The]
real hero is Amanda Berry.'

Until now the search for the missing women had been fruitless, a series of false leads and bitter disappointment for the desperate families.

Last
July, an empty lot on the west side of Cleveland was excavated for the
body of Amanda Berry by forensic crews working on a tip from a convict.

The
small lot on West 30th Street and Wade Avenue - which is two blocks
from the Seymour Avenue home where the women were held - turned up
nothing.

Michelle Knight, who was 20 years old
when she went missing in August 2002, was last seen at a cousin's house
near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue.

Three
years later, in April 2003, Amanda Berry, disappeared after leaving her
job at a Burger King - at West 110th Street and Lorain. It was the day
before her 17th birthday.

And a year later, Gina DeJesus, then 14 years old, was last seen leaving her middle school at West 105th Street and Lorain.

A police spokesperson on Tuesday said all three women had been released from the MetroHealth Medical Center and were taken to a 'secure location.'